You might have to explain some of that US military shorthand Mark. I’m an Aussie. Gallipoli is still a big deal in the Australian calendar. No denying the Turks fought bravely. Aussie soldiers were tough buggers too. Still are. Not a military guy myself but on both sides of my family I have men who fought in New Guinea, Tobruk in ww2 and Beersheba and Passchendaele in ww1.
Ishtar was the Babylonian goddess of war and fertility. Eggs as a fertility symbol. I think its fair to say that Xmas and Easter have some synchronistic practices of pagans fused with Christian observances. Choc eggs, tree and tinsel etc etc
Syncretistic practices I should say. Not synchronistic
THe IAF may be the best in the world, in the history of the world, and their fleet isn’t small, either (despite the best efforts of the Kenyan in his nonstop efforts to aid and abet genocide of the Jews). In the 1967 War the IAF preemptive strike was the only contingency that would work to Israel’s survival, and they enjoyed air superiority, the only dogfights that occurred were with Pakistani and other fighters flying out of Iraq, which still had usable airfields. Had the war gone to a 7th day, Iraq wouldn’t have had airfields.
In the 1973 War the Russia “advisors” (mercenary cutthroats from the imperialist atheist soviet regime era) mocked the Egyptian pilots of Soviet birds, so the Egyptians invited the Russians to show them how it was done. They went up and got their asses handed to them. The Egyptian flyers had a party that night and invited the Soviet flyers, who stayed in their rooms.
I think there are too many muzzies who have some kind of familiarity with apocalyptic beliefs in Christianity and try to take their own advantage.. Meanwhile, conditions are not met, because Israel has a qualitative edge in conventional warfare, and when the reserves are mobilized, they have a highly trained and highly motivated force numerically competitive with their adversaries. In addition, they their own none-too-secret secret nuclear deterrent, and it won’t be long before Iran doesn’t. Just in case, Israel also has Iron Dome, and while it’s used against the workaday terrorist attacks, nuke warheads are much less of a threat as well (except in Jordan,where the broken Iranian missiles will fall).
[snip] The story is that Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey, is expected to be reincarnated as a white Turkish Angora cat with one blue eye and one green eye and bite the heel of the next great leader of the country. Now, the next part is unknown to most TA breeders: For the longest time I couldn’t understand why many men in Ulus (the medieval part of Ankara — then Angora) and villages wrecked their perfectly good shoes. They bent the shoe backs forward and walked on them under their heels, turning the shoes into slippers or clogs! Finally I was informed by a Turkish friend and instantly enchanted: Those men (because, of course, it could only be a man!), ready to be of service to their national hero, faithfully expose their heels, inviting the bite of that one special odd-eyed white cat — just in case they are Ataturk’s Chosen One! [/snip]
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